Her husband carried sand out of their home by the shovelful as she spoke.

The couple bought the property, tore down the century-old home and rebuilt, getting a certificate of occupancy in July. Since then, they have spent summer weekends here, traveling from their Manhattan apartment.

The couple planned to make Manasquan their year-round home, with Jayme expecting a baby in about six weeks.

That plan is now uncertain.

The Abrahamsens’ home was one of more than 100 that borough Mayor George Dempsey estimated were damaged in last week’s storm. The mayor said that as of Sunday, more than 60 homes had been condemned.

Jayme Abrahamsen said it was “hard to tell” just how much damage was caused by the storm. She said the back of the house is encased in about 6 feet of hard-packed sand that used to be the beach.

“We had maybe a foot or 2 of water on the first floor,” she said. “Structurally, it seems to my very untrained eye to be sound, but we don’t know for sure.”

She said the couple would like to rebuild and keep with their original plan.

“It’s just a matter of how the insurance works out,” she said. “It smells like a swamp in there.”

Sunday was the second day that residents along the beachfront and a few blocks inland were allowed to visit their homes, assess damage and begin cleanup.

Many residents who came back Saturday already had most, if not all, of their ruined possessions lined up curbside to be picked up by sanitation crews.

Sand dunes run along First Avenue. Some longtime residents said this is the first time they have seen the wooden pilings separating sections of the beach since the replenishment of the early 1990s.

Fairfax, Va., resident Deb Broderick came by Sunday to inspect her two East Main Street rental units, both of which sustained damage.

“Everything is going to go,” she said as she carefully walked through one of the units.

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Slippery muck was on the floor, making a secure foothold difficult.

Rushing water rearranged her furniture, she said, and turned her refrigerator upside down.

Still, Broderick said, it could have been worse.

“Compared to others, I’m lucky,” she said. “I still have the foundations.”

Beachfront owner Cara Macksoud was not as optimistic about the home she, her husband and five children use as a beach house.

“I don’t think this is salvageable,” she said. “Everything is a wreck in there.”

The sand was so deep in one bedroom, she could only open the door about a quarter of the way.

“It just looks like it just blew in,” she said. “We closed the doors, but every door was blown open.”

The Macksouds got hit with a double-whammy by Sandy, she said. Their primary home is in Battery Park City, which was also inundated by floodwaters.

Pat Duffy of Pearl River, N.Y., was at the Riverside Drive home of her sister, Margaret Garvey, to prepare for a potential new storm later this week.

“She’s out of state,” Duffy said of her sister. “Her daughter and myself are just here assessing the damage and getting ready in case another storm comes through.”

Forecasters call for a nor’easter Wednesday or Thursday.

Duffy said the house’s deck was damaged and some siding was blown off.

“There’s lots of sand inside,” she said. “There’s about 5 feet of sand out back.”

Duffy said her sister will repair the home.

Overall, she said, “we’re pretty lucky.” A house just two doors away was condemned, she said.